It wasn't my first time. I'm not an eclipse virgin. I've totally been there and done that, back in 2017, and I wrote about it on these pages of newsprint. Stil…
Since our move, there has been a constant pile of boxes by the back door, and it drives me batty (yes, battier than usual, which is truly saying something). In…
"Anything to do around here at this hour?" an older man asked Trapper John and me as we took a late evening stroll across the courthouse lawn. He was neatly dr…
"That's a beautiful sweater," I said to a young lady standing near me as we waited to board the plane.
I no longer know how to drive a car built in the last five years. My baby blue 1978 Ford F100 (affectionately named "Blue Belle") and my white two door 2009 Je…
For quite some time now, I've had the goal of seeing all 50 states by the time I turned 50 years of age.
I've often been told I was "born 40" – a colloquial way of saying I have an old soul, that I see the world in a way typical of someone much older than my actua…
Happy New Year, dear Readers! Welcome to a world where everything is NEW! It's a new year with new goals, new clothes, new widgets from Santa, new news stories…
"If there were no constraints of time, money or geography – you could have anything from anywhere at any time – what would your last meal be?"
"He's gone," I typed on my cell phone in a text to my aunt. I could barely see through the tears as I sat in the truck.
